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can anyone tell me where electricians stand doing work in some ones council house i have been dealing direct with the customer who is renting the council house he wants extra sockets in his kitchen would i have to contact the council- damien1
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Council sparks!!
Been doing a job in a school this week, brand new kitchen. Council sparks in the school doing a job in a refurbished classroom. Me: 20 metres of 25mm 4 core swa from the boiler room to a new board. 4 socket circuits, 2 lighting circuits and 3 3 phase outlets for a dishwasher, oven and fryer...- Tester Steve
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Private Rented Property - Council Demands
Hi All, Been asked to do a rewire on a private rented property. Apparently the property owner had a few issues with the tennant and the tennant took up issue with the council who subsequentley viewed the property and and the landlord to do extensive upgrades one of which was improvement to the...- parm
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council charity
Oh well ok, 5 items (we are a charity organisation, can you do us a special price.)~ Ok, £30.00 Turns out, 15 items...and I can't go in that room just yet, in 30 mins you can 5 miles round trip, and 3 hours work all told (with waiting time) Next year ~I'm going to give them 10 quid for the...- wattsup
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- charity council
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Local authority building control.
Listen to this one. I mostly work on commercial and industrial jobs and subby so never felt the need to get NIC. But times are hard and i've been asked to do a consumer unit change and run a shower in. I rang up the council and got the local building inspector on the phone told what i was going...- Strickers
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- asked building building control control council going local
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council sparks price
I have heard a number of times now and have lost work because Council employed sparks are doing total rewires for peanuts. I know someone who had a total done for £600 another at £800 And now one at £1600 for a 3 bed Obviously they have access to free materials but what does that kind of...- martysparky
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Lighting circuit earth singles ?
Priced a job today to fit some lights in a house, which looked about 20-30 yrs old. Noticed on the landing fitting when I pulled the existing fitting down, that there appeared to be 4 solid green coloured conductors terminated at the fitting. One was "twinned" with the switched live, the others...- GT1
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- circuit council earth green house lighting lighting circuit singles solid
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Local council and part P
As the new house I've just moved into needs a complete rewire, I thought that I would use this as one of my assesment jobs to join the NIC boys, with a view to becoming self employed. With my understanding of Part P, I went along to the local town hall and explained what I intended to do and...- oldstudent
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Elecsa help
Hi guys, I'm looking to join elecsa but am not to sure when it comes to the two jobs that get assessed. I think that you have to show 1 minor job and one major job, when it cones to these jobs do you have to inform the council about the work you're carrying out? And if so do they give u some...- samthespark123
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rules for pvc trunking
loacl housing group are re-wiring 40+ homes around near me i was asked why thay are using pvc trunking for all circuits .. i remember in the late 80s doing houses with trunking but that was just lighting drops only .. what are the rules for pvc trunking in a house just seems lazy not to chase...- confused-fuse
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- council houses pvc rules trunking walls
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council rewires the good ,bad and ugley
Hi all I am seeing a contractor about council contract work 5-7 years work.the job involves pirs and remedials kithchen/bathroom rewires ,complete rewires old and newbuild. I am a one man band who has paired up with another sparkie i know council work is not every ones cup of tea and i have been...- tuckermot
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NICEIC Certification Scheme NICEIC and the don`t take the P propoganda
Hi I earlier reported on **** Electrical ( ***** *******) a rogue electrician in Poole who had been passing himself off as an NICEIC approved contractor for the last three years. We reported him to Poole building control (Mr Muzzall-head of department) who had ***** in for tea and biscuits and...- moulesnfrites
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- certification certsure council niceic nothing scheme their
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what registered scheme
RIGHT DECISION TIME! do i go TRUST MARK via ECA/ELECSA (government scheme) nominal fee of £40 quid i think stand to be corrected TrustMark : find reliable, trustworthy tradesmen : Government Endorsed Standards OR DURHAM COUNTY REGISTERED TRADER SCHEME (local trading standards...- DurhamSparky
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Smoke alarms in rental properties
Hey up all, finally actually STARTIN a thread as opposed to just reading them for once! Im sure this has been done before but thought id ask. Client is doing up an old 2 up 2 down terrace to rent out and got quite a few bits to do. Not a full re-wire just board change, extra sockets, bonding...- super_stuey
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- alarm alarms council house properties rental rented smoke smoke alarms
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- Forum: Security Alarms, Door Entry and CCTV (Public)
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Sockets on a chimney breast!
Hi folks been to a customer today (pensioner) she had some work done by the council sparks, they did a partial rewire of her house & told her that sockets aren't permitted on the chimney breast & removed them, she would like them put back on the chimney breast. I could understand it if it was...- sparks72
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- cable chimney council socket sockets where
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old council db's
hello there i've got to change a db to a flat in a council block but it isn't a straight changover. these old cabinets are everywhere in the borough where i live and work. is there a straight replacement up to 17th standards .i go to a lot of jobs where they have this arrangement, i know the... -
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Pricing again...Sorry
Hi guys, I've just moved to a new area and need a bigger customer base and been thinking about approaching a few local companies to see if they can offer anything, kitchen fitters, conservatories etc. Just wondering how it worked with pricing with companies you worked with? Do you work to set...- 4x4steve
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- always council first price pricing worked
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council building p.i.r
Called to a public council building to carry out a p.i.r on it Came across disabled shower room with, hand dryer, water heater, and convector heater 3kw all class 1 ,all Supplied by switched fused spurs in the shower room 30marcd protected style Shower without basin/wet room fig701.1 Now all...- Tapouchoke
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- building calibri council heater installed protected shower
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Council flat rewire with concrete ceiling and floors???
I have a customer who wants a full rewire of his newly purchased ex-council flat. The problem is the ceiling and floor are solid concrete. The only thing I could think of is to put in false ceilings in throughout. Any other suggestions?- Grant M
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- ceiling concrete council flat floors rewire
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Notice to council
Hi guys cant seem to remember if i have to inform building control when i do a electrical installation cert only or at all and when i issue a minor cert. Can anyone help. I have done with a rewire i did recently but have also carried out a minor and wasnt sure Thanks- eagleeye
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- council notice
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- Forum: Periodic Inspection Reporting & Certification
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